I certainly agree with taking religion out of schools. I do think philosophy skews the ideas of "good v.s. evil, right v.s. wrong," and you'd have to teach the concept that good and evil don't even exist as well. Still, I agree. I'm a teacher and often throw philosophy into my classes simply by...
Wild Animus by Rick Shapiro.
I got this book free at a Disco Biscuits concert when I was in High School. I later found out that many of my friends had gotten it for free as well from similar places. It was hilariously bad. The main character takes a bunch of LSD and goes on top of a mountain...
Milan Kundera. If you've only read "Unbearable Lightness of Being" and liked it, read his other stuff. It's all amazing and brilliant. He writes the way I think, constantly overturning and shaping ideas to look at them from all angles. His characters aren't so much specific people as they are...